Patreon’s Elfucko’d

You may have noticed that something fuckey went down over on Patreon at the start of this month. I don’t know exactly what happened but there appears to have been a rash of declined cards and such across the entire site. If you pledged to CoC2 or to TiTS, Fenoxo and I would both appreciate it very much if you went and checked the page to make sure you didn’t get declined. Several hundred of you appear to have been affected by whatever bug hit Patreon and, especially in TiTS’ case, I don’t want people to get screwed out of their backer builds.

Thanks bras <3

Edit: It appears that, without telling anybody, Patreon switched from an American bank to a British one. That’s why a lot of banks are flagging your activity as fraudulent. GfuckingG Patreon.Edit2: Everything should be fine for subscriptions going forward; only this month was affected. Just be sure to check your account and make sure you haven’t been auto-removed from any of your Patreon subs and everything should go back to normal if you need to re-up.

I got the same thing from Bank of America for all of my pledges. While Patreon still seems to have the right billing information, they must have changed the way they communicate with banks in a way that made it seem like fraudulent activity.

I talked to my bank about it when I got a message saying it was fraud prevention. As it turns out, the previous months had been billed from California, but for some reason this month it was billed from the U.K.

Arpie here, with a Personality of 9/100, I explained the Backer -> Patreon -> Stripe -> Card People stack to a service agent who confirmed that there was a hold on my account and was able to use the “Patreon changed their banking country” story to their supervisor and got (at least) my hold lifted.

Immediately after this conversation, I retried and it went through.

So now what? Do I roam the Residential deck between 16:00 and 20:00 or access the secret Breedwell video six where toon-Tamani gives Akane, Sera and Penny pointers on how to make sure “contributors” know their place?

well they have made allot of stuff illegal (unless they have revoked it at a later date), because they are “dangerous” some of thoes things are female ejaculation, watersport, (degrading) dirty talk, facesitting and any activity that causes pain (but dont quote me on the last one).

but i only think its restricted to creating porn and recording porn in the uk, not regular intercourse or watching something made in another country, its still fine, looking at it form a logic standpoint since else they’d have to ban all porn sites, but i have no source for this tho.

“The Video Recordings Act 1984 required the BBFC to censor all video works before release. As a result, the UK became one of the few representative government countries where the sale of explicit pornography on video (and later DVD) was illegal (thus opening the market to unlicensed pornography shops which technically operated in defiance of the haphazardly enforced laws). The appearance of the Internet during the 1990s introduced unregulated access to hardcore pornography in the UK for the first time. The existing legal and regulatory framework came to be seen as insufficient and in the 21st century a number of measures have been introduced, including web blocking and additional criminal legislation. Nevertheless, the Obscene Publications Act is still in force, and it makes it illegal for websites that can be accessed from the UK without age restriction to contain certain types of adult content.”

“Examples of overblocked categories reported include:

sex education and advice on sexual health
help with sex and pornography addiction
support services for rape and domestic abuse
child protection services[46]
suicide prevention
libraries
parliament, government and politicians[47]
drug advice”

“Significant underblocking has also been discovered, with ISPs failing to block up to 7% of adult sites tested. A study commissioned by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme which tested parental control tools showed that underblocking for adult content ranged from 5-35%”

“Many libraries in the UK such as the British Library and local authority public libraries apply filters to Internet access. According to research conducted by the Radical Librarians Collective, at least 98% of public libraries apply filters; including categories such as “LGBT interest”, “abortion” and “questionable”.”

Thing is I was actually on the phone with my bank as I made the attempt and the person I was speaking to was saying that no charges have even been attempted on my card. Been sending notes to Patreon but so far no response.

Yeah their lack of communication as to when they’ve actually tried again is what’s really pissing me off. I know for a fact I’ve got a working payment method attached to the account right now because I was able to pledge to someone I’d been considering who’s patreon is pay up front. What I can’t do is anything at all with any of the people I’m currently pledging to, up to and including canceling and repledging. And their support is worse than useless.

Does anyone here have any idea what a status of “other” means on patreon? I’m in contact with someone I pledge to because I do work for them when I’m available and that’s what they say my status is, which isn’t even on the goddamn list. At this point, I’m legit wondering if they’re hiding something SERIOUSLY WRONG from us.

i have a somewhat different problem, that im not sure if it is a problem.
i payed 5$ for july, and ended the payment before the end of the month, because i only wanted to do that month, (i dont have much digital spending money). and all is good, transaction worked, im not being billed for more….
however i just noticed recently that im still getting backer builds updates that i can access. i’ve tried refreshing my account, my pledge data, logging in and tthen out, deleting patreon data from this site then reconnecting, but it still shows im paying $5 even though im not and patreon KNOWS that im not, and that i shouldnt be.
is there some unknown thing where i payed once so i get backer builds from now on regardless? that doesnt seem right.
and yea never look a gift horse in the mouth, but i still new to patreon stuff and this is conserning, i dont want to get more then i legaly deserve.